Coming True is a Swedish

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single by

Daniel Lindström Daniel Lindström (born 30 January 1978) is a Swedish singer from Umeå who won the Swedish Idol 2004 contest against Darin Zanyar. His first single, " Coming True", sold double platinum, and his self-titled album, released in December 2004, top ...

, winner of the Swedish version of

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in its first season in 2004. He sang the winning song when he was declared winner on 26 November 2004. The single went straight to #1 on the Swedish Single Charts on 9 December 2004 and stayed at number for 7 weeks (9, 16, 23, 30 December 2004 and 6, 13 and 20 January 2005) making it both the Swedish Christmas and the New Year number one. The song is written by

Jörgen Elofsson Kjell Åke Jörgen Elofsson (born 14 January 1962) is a Swedish songwriter. He was one of the writers of the songwriter-team at Cheiron Studios in Stockholm (along with Denniz PoP, Max Martin, Kristian Lundin, Andreas Carlsson, Rami Yacoub, Pe ...

specifically for the Idol 2004 winner. It was sung in the final by both Daniel Lindström and runner-up

Darin Zanyar Darin Zanyar (born 2 June 1987), prefessionally known as Darin, is a Kurdish-Swedish pop singer and songwriter born in Stockholm. He first came into prominence on the television talent show '' Idol''. Darin has released nine studio albums, eight ...

. The song is included in Daniel Lindström self-titled album ''Daniel Lindström''.

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{{authority control 2004 singles Number-one singles in Sweden Songs written by Jörgen Elofsson 2004 songs